Process of making cut-printing plates.



an improved process for HARRY L. BELL, EAR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PROCESS OF MAKING CUT-PRINTING PLATES.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 20, 1909 Serial No. 508,662.

Patented Mar. 8, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it,kn o wn that I, HARRY L. BELL, Sn, a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,

.. have invented certain new and useful Im-' description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it" pertains to'make and use the same.

This invention relates to processes of making newspaper-cut producing means.

The object of the invention is to provide roducing coarse line printing plates or sur aces adapted for news-paper or similar-picture printing and giving fine line color effects.

The invention consists in the process hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

This improved process is preferably carried out in the following manner. If, for

example,a newspaper illustration is to include the likeness of a person, I form .a

photographic negative thereof through a fine screen, the negative being reduced to or made of a fractional part of the size of the cut desired, say to. one half size. Owing to the use of a fine screen (that is, a screen having about 100 lines per inch, or more), the

negative will give the desired shade and color effects to a greater extent than would a negative taken through a coarse line screen (that is, a screen having from 50 to 75 lines per inch). From this small or re duced, fine screen no ative, by use of any suitable camera, I ma e an enlarged photographic copy, for example, on bromid aper or on velox paper, from which a secon nonscreen negative is made of the size of the desired illustration, and this because of the described enlargement will appear coarse lined but will retain the color effects of the fine screen negative, as above stated. The enlarged copy-can-be retouched, and when desired is given line efi'ects manually with en and ink as when the subject of the print 1s to become a part of a line drawin illustration, in which case the retouche print from the fine screen ne ative may be pasted inproper situation on t e line drawing, and all reproduced by acamer'a, in one negative. Ubviously co 'ies of more than one object, produced in t e manner described, could be attached to the same drawing and be simultaneously reproduced by a camera in a single negative,as frequently required in newsaper work. The negative from i the enarged copy is next reproduced on a sensitized metal to be etched and used directly; or from which a stereotypeor electrotype plate is .taken. In either case the final printing plate for the out, which is the product of the described process, is coarse line, but retains the, fine screen color efiects of the first negative. i

In some instances I first make the fine screen negative of the object (either reduced in size or not reduced, according to circumstances); then take a copy on paper (either velox or bromid) therefrom enlarged more than two times, by use of a suitable pared, as above indicated. Another way of carrying out the improvement is to make a half tone negative through a fine line screen,

say 150 lines to the" inch, and from such a negative make a co y by contact, preferably on velox or bromi paper. Then from the copy make a negative, enlarged as required, and from this negative print on sensitized metal in any of the well knouu or suitable ways, and etch to finally form .he plate.

I am aware that fine screen negatives have been enlarged directly onto printing plates, and this I do not claim.

Having thus described the invention What I claim is,

l. The process of making aprinting plate which consists in making a photographic negative through a fine screen, making a photographic copy therefrom, making a non-screen larger negative from such copy, arlid reproducing the second negative on a ate.

p 2. The process of making a printing plate which consists in making a photographic negative through a fine screen, making-a photographic. copy therefrom, retouching such copy, making a non-screen larger negative from such copy, and reproducing the second negative on a plate.

which consists in making a photographic graphic ne ative through a fine screen, making an en arged photographic copy from said negative, making a non-screen negative from such copy, and reproducing the second negative at the desired size of the illustration on a printing late.

4. The process 0 making a printing plate negative through a fine screen, making a copy thereof photographically on paper, making a non-screen larger negative from such copy, photographing the latter on a metal plate, and etching the latter.

5. The process of producing a printing plate comprising the making of a photographic negative of a subject through a fine screen, making a photographic copy thereof, associating such copy in desired relation with other matter, making a non-screen negative including the whole and in which the portion showing said copy is larger than the first negative, and reproducing the sec- 0nd negative without a screen on a printing plate.

6. The process of producing a printing plate comprising the making of a photographic negative through a fine screen and smaller than the desired plate, making an enlarged photographic copy thereof, associating such copy in desired relation with other matter, making a non-screen negative including the whole and in which the portion showing said copy is larger than the first negative, transferring the latter negative to a sensitized surface, and etching, as

setforth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY L. BELL, SR.

WVitnesses:

WILLIAM R. JONES, JOHN R. HOFFMAN. 

